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Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Wednesday killed at least 17 people, including five children and their parents. The overall Palestinian death toll in the war has almost reached 40,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. One strike hit a family home late Tuesday in the built-up Nuseirat refugee Continue reading

Two polar bears killed a worker at a remote Arctic radar station in Canada’s northern Nunavut territory, prompting an investigation into the rare fatal attack. The employee, who has not been named, was working for Nasittuq Corporation – a logistics company which operates radar defence sites on behalf of the Canadian government. Other workers responded Continue reading

The World Wide Web might sound metaphorical, but it’s actually grounded in a physical web of translucent glass filaments crisscrossing the globe. These fiber-optic cables transmit internet data through tiny beams of light, making it possible for us to be online. It is the largest network humans have ever built, and in coming years, it Continue reading

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, watching tens of thousands of migrants from Central America reach the U.S.-Mexico border just a few months into his administration, tapped his second-in-command to help address the influx — a decision that has exposed Vice President Kamala Harris to one of her biggest political liabilities. While migration from the Continue reading

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Constitutional Court removed Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin from office over an ethical violation Wednesday, further shaking up Thai politics after ordering the dissolution of the main opposition party a week ago. “I’m sorry that I’d be considered as a prime minister who’s unethical, but I’d like to insist that I believe Continue reading

NEW DELHI: The Army is now exploring the possibility of procuring 350 light tanks, which can also be transported by air, to augment its firepower in high-altitude areas in the backdrop of the continuing military confrontation with China in eastern Ladakh.The Army on Thursday issued an initial Request for Information RFI ) to vendors for Continue reading

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., fended off several primary challengers Tuesday, NBC News projects, a victory for progressives after two of her fellow members of the “squad” suffered defeats this summer. Omar defeated former Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels, who lost to her by just 2 percentage points in the 2022 primary, and two other Continue reading

Police in Ferguson, Missouri, on Tuesday released body camera and security videos of a man shown charging at a police officer and knocking him to the pavement, where he hit his head and was critically injured. The incident occurred Friday night during demonstrations marking the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, which Continue reading

Go to newsletter preferences Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Student protests are escalating there and other college campuses over the Israel-Gaza war and schools’ investments in Israeli entities, with demonstrators on Tuesday breaking into a Columbia campus building and occupying it. Continue reading

Tim Walz pushed back on GOP attacks on his military service and the timing of his departure from the Army National Guard during his first solo campaign appearance a week after being named Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate. During a speech Tuesday before one of the nation’s largest public sector unions, the longtime National Continue reading